April 7, 2004: Up to now, all Carpet thorns have been living in a single arrangement for Cactus. This caused problems, because stable thorns, development thorns, and outdated thorns were sitting next to each other, confusing newcomers. We have moved the Carpet arrangement to a new repository and split it into four. Access to the old Carpet arrangement has been disabled.
March 3, 2004: We have recently had trouble with I/O throuth the FlexIO library. We suspect that it might have a bug that causes HDF5 output to fail under certain, random conditions. We have written a new thorn CarpetIOHDF5 which uses the HDF5 library directly, while remaining compatible to the FlexIO file format. Please test this thorn, and report any problems or incompatibilities you find.
In January 2004, Daniel Kobras set up Bugzilla for Carpet. Bugzilla is a bug-tracking system that will, so we hope, help us remember what is missing or broken in Carpet.
In October 2003, Erik Schnetter, Scott H. Hawley, and Ian Hawke published the preprint "Evolutions in 3D numerical relativity using fixed mesh refinement" as gr-qc/0310042. Its main point is to present tests of Carpet with the BSSN code (AEI's spacetime evolution code), and to show that mesh refinement does not introduce instabilities.
In August 2003, these web pages were created.
May 2003 has informally been termed "Carpet month". In a flurry of activity, bugs were fixed and some features added. The BSSN code of the numerical relativity group at the AEI now works together with Carpet.
Last modified: Mon Jun 6 21:10:30 CEST 2005